Got a new camera and lens (XT-2 and a 10-24mm F4 rectilinear), a new phone (Pixel 2), and a drone (DJI Mavic) within the past few months, so much of this trip is going to be chasing pictures and video. Considering upgrading my action camera to the latest 4k/60 too.

Freeze dried backpacking food to use with my jetboil is on the packing list, but an alcohol stove might be more convenient--really trying to avoid eating gas station hot dogs and the like while working further from the city. Can you pack rubbing alcohol on your carry on, or is it prohibited as a flammable liquid?

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Freeze dried backpacking food to use with my jetboil is on the packing list, but an alcohol stove might be more convenient--really trying to avoid eating gas station hot dogs and the like while working further from the city. Can you pack rubbing alcohol on your carry on, or is it prohibited as a flammable liquid?

You have to eat one gas station hotdog it's an experience.

If you take your Jetboil your need to get gas once you get there. I know there two outdoor retailers in town. One huge one and a smaller one. We saw both when we spent a day in the downtown area. Both sell fuel canisters. Expect gear to be expensive to besides fuel I would bring everything you need.

I don't think alcohol is allowed onboard. FWIW Somehow though when I opened my bag there was a small container with a few oz's.

I read that the isobutane fuel canisters can be found at gas stations. All the little camper vans people rent use those canisters for their stoves.

Don’t forget to stop at the penis museum

http://phallus.is/en/

^^^^^ Thanks. We are going to Iceland as well this winter and now my wife says we have a new place to go visit

We had a beautiful time there in November of 2013 or so. We stayed in the Capitol as well as a few days on the north side in Akarayay (wrong spelling Im certain). Highlight of trip was enjoying the Northern Lights for about 3 hrs. Hot springs, waterfalls, and beautiful countryside. Food is awesome as noted, but expensive. Sushi was best Ive ever had, if thats your thing. Really good beer, and super nice people. If I can get back in the summer I will certainly try. Enjoy the trip, it will be awesome.

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For the ones that have been to Iceland, what was your experience with tipping? We’ve read it’s both okay and that the locals dont like it either.

Ive been told the sights are amazing, im addition to the most beautiful women in the world!

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im addition to the most beautiful women in the world!

Having lived in Novosibirsk, Russia, I do believe I would need to judge this for myself (well and my wife).

I would HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend The Blue Lagoon. The drive through the Golden Circle will be stunning. My wife and I went in September and cant wait to go back.

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I would HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend The Blue Lagoon. The drive through the Golden Circle will be stunning. My wife and I went in September and cant wait to go back.

Yup, definitly. We did that on the way back to the Airport for the trip home. That water was perfect.

Was stationed there for a year 1978-79 (Marine Barracks), loved every minute. Enjoy your trip.

Need a guide?

Highly recommend Hans ... Hans. .. uh, can t remember his last name but he has a goose, "Gertrude."

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Don’t forget to stop at the penis museum

http://phallus.is/en/

You know you're a dick for posting this.

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Originally posted by apf383:... We stayed in the Capitol as well as a few days on the north side in Akarayay (wrong spelling Im certain). ... Enjoy the trip, it will be awesome.

Akureyri.

Yes, it is beautiful, rugged and has so many awesome things to see and experience.

I was fortunate to spend almost 3 years at Keflavik 70-73.

If you like horses, you will love the Icelandic horse.

They are as rugged as the land, and very mellow.

Hey all!

We're back! Trip was amazing, wish I had more time there. The landscape was breath taking and we lucked out and arrived after one of their winter storms that dumped snow everywhere. Halfway through the trip, the temperature spiked 10 degrees and dumped a day full of rain, and the snow all melted away and we got a different landscape to see.

Everything there is truly expensive. Diesel fuel was almost $8 USD per gallon. A footlong subway sandwhich (just for comparison sake, I wouldn't eat chain or fast food while traveling) was $17 USD. Chicken from the grocer was about $20 USD per kilo. I needed some epoxy to sort something out and a syringe of the two part, 5-minute Loctite epoxy was $16 USD.

Most natural sights like waterfalls and parks were open to the public for free, with sometimes a $5 USD parking fee or the like. Guided excursions were expensive--a 2 hour cave tour was $200+ a person, the blue lagoon was $90 a person, etc.

Driving was pretty mellow--the speed limit is ridiculously low, and most people on the road appeared to be tourists anyway. Despite being beautiful, not a ton of places to just pull off the road to snap pictures: the roads are raised and if you left the road surface, you are pretty much going to be stuck in 18" of snow.

I've started editing pictures and am getting through about 1 or 2 a day. Here are some of the ones I've finished:

This is the aurora over the Grotta Island Lighthouse just outside Reykjavik. The aurora was very, very faint to the naked eye (solar activity level 3, on a scale of 0-9). Most people didn't even notice that the aurora was up there, until I pointed it out to them using my camera screen. 15" shutter, F2.0, ISO1600. You can see how windy it was from the clouds moving across my open shutter.


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You can see Kirkjufell mountain in this picture. It's arguably Iceland's most iconic mountain. There's normally a waterfall here on the left, but it is frozen over.


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This is the Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon. Chunks of the Glacier breaks off into this lagoon, and float out towards the opening during low tide and out into the ocean. Glacial ice is very blue due to the low dissolved oxygen content in the ice. The ice is formed over many thousands of years by layers and layers of snow compressing the layers beneath it, expelling trapped gasses as it compresses.


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I like your snow-covered pictures. Gives a different feel to those sights especially Kirkjufell.

I'd bet you have more beautiful pictures to share if you wanted.

excellent pics!